01 August, 2011

ISRAEL TO EXTRADITE SREBRENICA KILLER TO BOSNIA

Aleksandar Cvetkovic, 42, a former soldier in the Army of Republika Srpska, a Bosnian Serb force, covers his face before his remand hearing at the District Court on January 19, 2011 in Jerusalem, Israel. Cvetkovic is suspected of taking part in a massacre of up to 1200 Bosnian Muslims at Branjevo farm, which made part of a series of mass murders known as the Srebrenica genocide. A request for Cvetkovic's extradition was issued by the Bosnia- Herzegovina government and Israeli authorities subsequently captured and arrested him. In July 1995 the Muslim enclave which was declared 'safe area' by the UN was over-run by Serbian forces who massacred 8,372 people. Cvetkovic (Bosnian Serb) moved to Israel in 2006 with his Jewish wife and became a citizen.

An Israeli court ruled on Monday that a former Serbian soldier could be extradited to Bosnia to face genocide charges for involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, though he can appeal the move.

Aleksandar Cvetkovic [also known as Alexander Spintkovitz], a Bosnian Serb living in the Jewish state since 2006, was arrested in January on an international warrant issued over testimony he helped systematically execute 8,372 Bosniak men and boys in Europe's worst massacre since the Holocaust ... CONTINUE READING >>>

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Srebrenica Genocide is not a matter of anybody's opinion; it's a judicial fact recognized first by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and subsequently by the International Court of Justice.